Assistant Principal

Assistant Principal

Ignite your desire to be the best!

Imagine an energy so positive, so powerful, it ignites your desire to be the best, inspires you to bring out the best in others, and fuels your aspiration to do the best work of your career. At Legacy Traditional Schools we do things a special way, in a way that ignites our desire to be the best, illuminates our educators' best talents, lights up the minds of our students, and fuels our school spirit. We shine the brightest when we raise our hands and rise to the challenge of changing lives through education, cultivating bright curious minds, achieving award-winning results, upholding our values, and engaging positively with our students, parents and communities.

Position Overview

The Assistant Principal's chief responsibility is to promote the educational well-being of each student within the school. This position has supervisory responsibility and creates a unifying workforce vision that brings team member development, performance management, and succession planning together. The Assistant Principal reports to the director of operations and will assist the principal with instructional duties as outlined. The Assistant Principal must have a flexible schedule in order to work hours necessary to fulfill his/her job requirements.

Essential Functions

• Assists in the overall administration of the school, with a strong commitment to the activities and operations associated with students, teachers, and parents, with other specific duties as assigned by the Director of Operations in coordination with the site principal.
• Acts as School Level Standardized Testing Coordinator facilitates administration of NWEA MAP testing, pre/post testing, JH midterms and finals, and implements the usage of educational technology (PowerSchool (AZ), Infinite Campus (NV), NWEA MAP, Learning Farm, BrainPop, etc.) Create COW schedule rotation and troubleshoot technology concerns.
• Assist with training for teachers hired after the start of the school year, such as (PowerSchool (AZ), Infinite Campus (NV), NWEA MAP, IXL, Classroom Setup, and New Hire Checklist.
• Confers with teachers, students, and parents concerning educational and behavioral problems in school.
• Acts as school attendance and truancy officer.
• Responsible for the creation, submission, updating, training, and implementation of the school emergency operations plan.
• Conforms to all safety rules and use of all appropriate safety equipment.
• Develops future school leaders.
• Reviews weekly lesson plans for all special area and Junior High teachers.
• Oversees and develops duty and dismissal schedules.
• Creates individual support staff schedules.
• Collect and review Title I tutors and paraprofessionals' time and effort logs.
• Oversee student discipline, documents the incidents and calls parents. All student report entries must be documented in PowerSchool (AZ) or Infinite Campus (NV) at the conclusion of each instructional day.
• Addresses parent issues and documents accordingly. All student report entries must be documented in PowerSchool (AZ) or Infinite Campus (NV) at the conclusion of each instructional day.
• Schedules, documents, trains staff, and complies with fire drills, lockdowns, and evacuation requirements.
• Oversight of McKinney Vento program.
• Serves as District Representative for IEP/MET meetings
• Follows up on all phone calls and emails in a timely manner
• Attends school events as assigned.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Essential Junior High Duties
• Creates and implements Junior High Scheduling.
• Legacy ValueProgram monitors teacher implementation, manages points and provides parent notification of 5 and 10 point deductions, ISS and OSS, Behavior Academic Contracts.
• Oversees Junior High flag ceremonies.
• Oversees LVP day planning.
• Oversees Weekly/Bi-Weekly Junior High team CTM meetings.
• Oversees Junior High Parent contact.
• Oversees Word Strides and end of year JH Field trip.

Essential Athletic Director Duties

• Schedules all games.
• Hires and develops coaches.
• Ensures attendance of LTS designee at all home games.
• Orders, stores, and maintains all uniforms and athletic equipment.
• Attends seasonal CAA Athletic Director Meetings.
• Completes all required paperwork and ensures that Legacy Athletics is in compliance with CAA (I.E. concussion protocols)
• Facilitates seasonal Mandatory Parent Meeting.
• Completes grade checks twice per month and enforces eligibility requirements.
• Responsible for all parent communication regarding athletics.
• Coordinates End-of-Season banquets for Fall, Winter, and Spring sports.

Essential Community Education Program Administrator Duties

• Serves as lead for all Community Education Programs: LKC, KEEP, Non-school Days, Summer Days, and Clubs.
• If Preschool: Works with Community Ed Coordinator.
• On-call for before or after school LKC session.
• Creates LKC, Non-school Days and Summer Days staff schedules to maintain a 30:1 child: staff ratio.
• Hires, trains, and monitors LKC activities to ensure staff members follow the daily schedule.
• Effectively communicates to all LKC staff and LTS families regarding program updates.
• Works in collaboration with Community Education to communicate with families regarding their account activity for LKC, KEEP, Non-school days, Summer Days, and Preschool (where applicable): registration, scheduling, and payments.
• Collects rosters and payments for all clubs and vendors.
• Maintains LKC Dashboards.
• Inventories and orders LKC materials, resources, and supplies for daily activities.
• Manages LKC discipline and brings concerns to the attention of the Principal.
• Attends District Community Education Meetings.

Essential EL Coordinator Duties

• Keep up-to-date with the EL list for your school (this will be a google document that will be shared with you).
• Work with the principal to ensure that EL Testers (proctors) are dependable & trained and have a time & place & resources to complete their testing as needed.
• Ensure that any new EL students are given the AZELLA Placement test within 10 days of their enrollment date. Once results are received, they must obtain parent consent for the student to participate in the EL program. Attempts, up to 3, must be documented on the EL/FEP Roster that was mentioned in the first bullet.
• Work with the principal to ensure that the teachers and tutors of your EL students are SEI-endorsed.
• Process all Consent forms and Withdrawal forms.
• Observe EL teachers to ensure that they are using SEI strategies with these students.
• Ensure program schedules for SEI Targeted and Integrated EL Instruction are created and are being followed.
• Monitors the effectiveness of EL Tutor.

Supervisory and Managerial Responsibility

• Hires, trains, develops, and appraises teaching staff effectively. Develops teaching staff to improve individual learning environment techniques.
• Observes and evaluates staff performance.
• Provides quick remediation for low teacher performance.
• Documents employee issues and refers to principal for corrective action as necessary on a timely basis and in accordance with district policy.
• Conducts end of year formal evaluations for all special areas and Junior High teachers.
• Hires, trains, develops, and appraises support staff effectively. Develops support staff to improve individual performance.
• Provides quick remediation for low performance.
• Documents employee issues and refers to the Director of Operations for corrective action as necessary on a timely basis and in accordance with district policy.
• Conducts end of year formal evaluation for all instructional support staff, to include classroom/lunch aides, program paraprofessionals, and Title 1 paraprofessionals.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Assistant Principals must have a high level